Discussion

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  Calling him “Scam” Altman is accurate. This is very much worth reading.

• @bigtechalert @bigtechalert on x

  🆕 @elonmusk began following @RonanFarrow (🤖👁️: i need a conspiracy theory about this) [image]

• @luke_metro @luke_metro on x

  @Miles_Brundage On my app he boosted it fair and square [image]

• @rmac18 Ryan Mac on x

  It appears Elon Musk is boosting The New Yorker's story on Sam Altman on the the platform he owns on the very day the trial between the two of them starts. https://x.com/...

• @miles_brundage Miles Brundage on x

  Very weird, is this just Elon tweaking the timeline algo to influence the trial? Note the lack of a date / time on Ronan's tweet, and the lack of an ad label or anything else to explain it being there. [image]

• @rmac18 Ryan Mac on x

  Musk has a history of tweaking X to his liking. He's demoted posts from Substack, changed rules to ban links to other social platforms, cratered the engagement of news outlets and had his people remove journalists.

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  Scam Altman ... https://x.com/...

• @rmac18 Ryan Mac on x

  X says the Boost feature is for premium users, but specifically say it's for a user's own posts and CANNOT be used on reposts or quote posts. If that's the case, why was Musk able to “boost” Ronan Farrow's post? The company won't answer questions about it either. [image]

• @ronanfarrow Ronan Farrow on x

  (🧵1/10) With renewed attention on my recent @NewYorker reporting about Sam Altman and OpenAI, it's worth revisiting a piece I wrote for the magazine about another tech billionaire who has accumulated unusual leverage over the US government—and whose hand many readers have [image]